lie fallow

Others have included shelving legislation on tighter pesticide rules, loosening checks and controls on farms, and requirements to let some land lie fallow.

The protests had an immediate impact on Wednesday — the European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, announced plans to shield farmers from cheap exports from Ukraine during wartime and allow farmers to use some land that had been forced to lie fallow for environmental reasons.

April Mayes: “The seed was sown. It would lie fallow for years, then germinate and grow until it finally flowered”, end quote.

Many lie fallow, creating a niche for the non-native, fire-prone grass that now occupies 25 percent of the entire state.

The point isn’t the money, backers say, so much as pressuring building owners to rent their spaces rather than letting them lie fallow.